

Claude Debussy
Première Rhapsodie and Petite Pièce for Clarinet and Piano
Originally written for the final year clarinet examination at the Paris Conservatoire, Debussy’s “Première Rhapsodie” has quickly become a bestseller of the clarinet repertoire, being a highly impressionistic work that plays marvellously with the timbral possibilities of the clarinet. Its success was so pervasive that Debussy later arranged the piano accompaniment for orchestra, and in this form the rhapsody is today to be heard all around the world. Our edition also contains as a “lollipop” the popular “Petite pièce”, an original work of under forty bars that was in fact devised as a sight-reading test.
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About the Composer

Claude Debussy
Most important French composer around 1900, whose music, primarily characterized by its sound, exhibits profound innovations. His oeuvre bears a close relationship to Symbolism.
About the Authors

Ernst-Günter Heinemann (Editor)
Dr. Ernst-Günter Heinemann, born in 1945 in Bad Marienberg (Westerwald), completed his schooling in Gießen and read musicology, philosophy and German in Marburg and Frankfurt/Main and also for some time Protestant church music. He did his doctorate on “Franz Liszts geistliche Musik. Zum Konflikt von Kunst und Engagement”.
From 1978–2010 Heinemann worked as an editor at G. Henle Publishers (in 1978 in Duisburg, from 1979 onwards in Munich). He edited a great many Urtext editions for the publishing house, including “Das Wohltemperierte Klavier”, Volume 1 by Bach and all of Debussy’s piano works. In addition, he wrote essays on Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn and questions concerning general editing, as well as giving seminars on editorial practice for musicology students in Munich.

Klaus Schilde (Fingering)
Schilde won numerous prizes. From 1947 onwards he gave concerts as a soloist and chamber musician on almost every single continent with renowned orchestras. He taught at the music conservatories in East Berlin Detmold, West Berlin, Munich, Tokyo (Geidai) and Weimar. From 1988–1991 he was President of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, where he
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Sowohl die anspruchsvolle Komposition selbst als auch diese neu erarbeitete Ausgabe sind sehr zu empfehlen.
Das Liebhaberorchster, 2010The editor has carefully examined all of the sources and provides extensive notes regarding differences in dynamics, phrasing, and notation, as well as a chronology of the various versions. … The extensive historical notes alone make it invaluable, and the music is clearly printed on heavy stock with the sometimes problematic page turns eliminated.
The Clarinet, 2008Cerise sur le gâteau, les éditions Henle offrent en outre la charmante Petite Pièce – ce court morceau n’atteignant même pas 40 mesures-, plein d’originalité, conçu initialement pour l’épreuve de lecture à vue de l’examen final.
Crescendo, 2006La edición Urtext de Henle es, pues, una bendición, con el añadido de la Petite Pièce.
Doce Notas, 2005La presente edizione filologica della Rapsodie ci aiuta a capire il percorso evolutivo che ha portato alla sua pubblicazione partendo dalla base del manoscritto, che in alcune sue parti si discosta notevolmente dalla versione finale approvata da Debussy. Il curatore di questa preziosa edizione è Ernst-Günter Heinemann.
I Fiati, 2005recommendations
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